new house, new room

okay so im finally going to get around to blogging about my new house. the delay is due to the fact that i just finished my room about....10 minutes ago :) hahaha. so first im gonna do the general areas upstairs....

This is basically the first look of my house right after you walk in the front door...

A look at the Living Room...just fun antiques

This is the Great Room. (basically the Family Room and Kitchen)

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Now here is my room!

My awesome blue book shelf, the quilt i made...yup this room just screams me!

okay, so there are going to be some of you guys out there that are just completely bored with this post cuz your like "jen, we have seen this all already", just wait you people! the long awaited and long commented/confusing tree is done! *cue next picture!*

ah-ha! success! its awesome isnt it? here is a closer view:

So finally I am done, and happy with it! huzzah! well im off for now! im gonna so swimmin in my new pool! hahaha! ja ne!

First Impressions

So I am officially done with my first 3 days of school for this Fall 09 semester and I thought I would write my first impressions of my classes so far (I will probably laugh at these later because classes are pretty dynamic little creatures...)

1. Differential Equations: this is my first American math teacher I've had at ASU. He seems really nice, but he is a new teacher, so he might be pretty inexperianced. But so far his teaching style has been pretty good, so i am fairly pleased.

2. Engineering Mechanics: This class is going to give me a lot of grief in the future, I will tell ya that right now. My teacher seems pretty thorough but who knows what is going to happen when things really get going.

3. Circuits: This one seems pretty good also. I learned some ciruits in my Physics 2 class i took this summer and felt good about it, so we shall see if this class changes my views at all. But so far it seems to be okay.

4. Physiology: This is an ultimatum class to me. It is either going to be really fun, or really really hard. My teachers (there are two of them) seem way cool and like they know what they are doing, but there is just so much that we are going to have to learn, im kind of daunted.

So in this little analysis I have tired to be pretty optimistic and stuff. I actually have been having a hard time getting motivated for this semester but im making myself go while finding/maintaining my motivation to learn!

Well im off for now, but hey, the valley has been really clear lately so its been gorgous! Huzzah for Arizona (when its not smoggy and pretty!)

not dead....

wow, it has been seriously FOREVER since I last posted, and while this one is going to be real quick (cuz its main purpose is to prove that Im not dead ;)) I just wanted explain why the long break.

First off I started a summer school course, Physics 2, so bascially, I had no life...(ask my sister) then we moved in the middle of that and Ive been wanting to post pics but im too lazy and forget to take my camera with me when i go on my daily excursions around the house. and now im on week 2 of my two week break so im just kinda chillin with Emily and fam.

And you wanna know something that is probabaly one of the huggest shockers of my life?!!! I have hardly been on the computer this last month...maybe two! Basically ive just kept busy with fun projects (mainly my room) and just read when i get bored or tired. how fun is that?! I love it actually :) !

well i think that is all for now. thanks for hangin in there with me! love ya all!

(YAY for pretty temple flowers!)

Daddy!

In light of Father's Day, I am going to take a break from my usual ramblings about myself, and give a little tribute to my most amazing father. My Dad, as I have just recently stated, is amazing. He works SO amazingly hard to support our family, it leaves me in awe. And because he not only works hard at work, but in all the things he does, it instills in me the drive to do my best at whatever I decide to persue.
And please, all you people who think that my father is some gruff, intimidating man... you are just wrong. He only acts it cuz he can :) yes my father is powerful and commanding, but he is also so very kind and gentle.

So here's to you Dad! I hope you have a wonderful day! Love you!

The Proud Father

Sporting the beard only two months later...

Where we once visited Dad at work,

he now gets to be visited by his grandchildren!

Of course, he was always up for the ever-popular horsey ride

Playing, what I believe to be go fish or old maid, with his girls. Isnt he awesome?

Playing with his grill

My Dad and me!

Missouri!

Okay, okay. I've had these pictures save on here FOREVER but havent just gotten around to writing about Missouri, but now im going to so here I go!

First off, Lily was SO cute! She turned 1 a couple of weeks ago, and is just walking around and chatting up a storm. She loves to point at everything, and especially at things she is not supposed to mess with. hahaha

So, the land of Missouri is very interesting. It is very flat but has lots of hills so it kind of makes up for the lack of mountains. It rained alot (very randomly sometimes) but otherwise it wa a really awesome place to visit. Oh and by the way, there were Amish people that would just drive their buggies down the sides of the roads!

Also there were like a million of these little 'po-dunk' towns that we drove through, and lived in for a week. Though they are fun and old-timey, there is nothing to do in them besides go to antique shops and eat! hahah but its all good!

So here is me and em in our retal car (that got awesome gas mileage by the way). I was the official navigator and only messed up once :( , but that was on the return trip to the airport and it was so simple it was confusing...ha.

And Em was an awesome driver! I wasnt allowed to drive the car since im not 21 (poo) so she had to drive the whole time, but did awesome!

And now as I part, I leave you with a video of Lily saying the two things that she learned while we were there. A Banana is now "nana" and the doggy goes "woo woo" (in a barking kind of way :))

And She Lived Happily Ever After...Until Summer School That Is...

So the time has finally come! I am done with my freshman year of college! Huzzah! and my grades are coming in and looking pretty good!  but honestly im just excited to have time to actually do things besides school.  gosh!

well mom has been putting me to work though, we have been cleaning like mad to get the house ready for showing.  Its amazing how much trinkets and clutter we have collected over the years!  As I have been putting it, 'our house has been overweight and we have just been helping it shed some pounds!"  So the next could pictures are of my room, and if anyone remembers how it looked before, its crazy tidy; it also looks a bit bare, but we are trying to make the house look like a model home, so the de-cluttering applies to the walls too.

So i lately i have met this girl in my ward who is so awesome!  she is like my new best friend down here!  so monday night we were both really bored so we decided to go teepee-ing!  and Jeff actually met her and is taking her out tonight so we did his truck, and he thought it was pretty funny...

but thats kinda a bad picture...you should see the front of it! hahaha. here is us just after obtaining the goods:

well thats all for now! ja ne!

Its Snowing Craziness!

hey so my world is pretty crazy right now. So here is a list of what has been going down

1. really....im almost done with my finals, but they seem to just keep getting harder and harder! but hey im three down and one more to do...yes! just physics....*sigh* i guess i will just feel better when all the grades come in, all this waiting is not fun.

2. So boys.....uhhhhh....they are just very confusing....nuff said...

3. i need to make a list or something for the summer.  I dont want to be so bored but i do want to rest, so you have any suggestions for me please let me know!

So i guess my life isnt super super insane, but i promise, finals are taking more out of me than i anticipated, so i just dont wanna talk anymore about it.

But anyways....oh well im done for now. but just to emphasize my craziness...its snowing at my house! (well flowers anyways...)